“What do you propose?”

I took a breath.

“Let me see what can be lawfully reviewed.

I know more about his habits than he thinks I do.

That doesn’t make me an accountant.

But it might tell your people where to ask questions.”

There was already public reporting about Patrick’s venture firm and its planned acquisition of Aether Tech.

I had heard him discuss it at home, often on calls he assumed I could not understand.